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Bloomsbury Group

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noun

  1. a group of writers, artists, and intellectuals living and working in and around Bloomsbury in London from about 1907 to 1930. Influenced by the philosophy of G. E. Moore, they included Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and John Maynard Keynes

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Milne was clever, particularly at math, winning scholarships and, once he arrived at Cambridge, hanging out with members of the Bloomsbury Group.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

The house’s Paris Fashion Week show was an homage to late British painter Duncan Grant and celebrated member of London’s Bloomsbury Group, who died in 1978.

From Washington Times Jun. 24, 2022

They wondered: How had their brilliant debutante changed after six years in Europe, hobnobbing with the likes of Virginia Woolf and others in the famous Bloomsbury Group?

From Washington Post Jan. 29, 2022

Keynes, born in 1883, came of age amid the bohemian experimentation of the Bloomsbury Group, exchanging lovers and gossip with a set that included Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey.

From New York Times May 20, 2020

I for one applaud this move, and look forward to seeing Edith rub elbows with the Bright Young Things and the Bloomsbury Group while wearing all manner of fabulous outfits.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 4, 2016

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